First Crime story you remember?

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I would say the first one I remember was Damilola Taylor briefly , I was about 7 and remember seeing it on the news.

the first one i remember seeing on the news was sarah payne. i think i would have been around 9. my mum has always been a worrier and for a while she wouldn’t let me and my siblings play on the field opposite our house where we’d played for years. some of the other neighbourhood mums were the same.

I remember seeing Janette Tate on the front page of our regional newspaper.

Carl Bridgwater's murder, probably - at least, that was the first murder case I really remember hearing about, though of course there'd been bombings and bank robberies etc

Or Genette Tate, as PP said - I remember being very frightened by the idea that it was possible for a person to just "disappear"

I'm not sure.i remember 3 crimes, incredibly well. However, without googling I can't be sure of the time lines, I just know I was young.

The Columbine Massacre (back in the days these were still genuinely shocking)
The Bulger Killing (one I actually talk about a lot with our au pairs)
Sarah Payne/ Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells (my brain merges these for some reason, despite knowing they're not the same obviously)

The Columbine Massacre, I actually remember sitting at the dining table in the kitchen and reading about it in the newspaper when I was off school poorly.

Probably james bulger 🥺

The Yorkshire ripper.
He had killed near to where we lived, women genuinely did not go out at night for fear. I was a small child but felt very frightened by it.

The murder of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA. I was seven, it was such a huge news story but what I mostly remember is seeing the state funeral on TV.

Canary Wharf bombing and then the soho bombing

James Bulger for me too, I was 8 and remember it so vividly.

Lesley Whittle

Susan Maxwell

Same as @crosser62 Yorkshire Ripper. I'm from round that way too. Very scary times, I was a young teen.

The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle when i was 4. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Lesley_Whittle
I remember seeing on TV that she was missing. I didn't know anything else about it at the time, but looked it up as an adult. Horrific story

James Bulger, as a very little girl.

Susan Maxwell disappearing.

Shergar is probably the oldest crime story I remember

Genette Tate in 1978, I was 10 and lived in Devon at the time so it was on the local news.

Caroline Hogg I was about 10 and remember the missing posters up in the bus station in Glasgow. I cried when Robert Black was charged with her abduction and murder. Just awful for her family to have to wait for so long before a chance for closure. The same I expect for Madeleine McCann’s family💔💔

I think Holly and Jessica or Millie Dowler. I dont know how old I was but I remeber thinking "oh, well obviously they'll find them safe". Oh the naievity of youth

Oh gosh yes Genette, sorry for incorrect spelling.
It was on Spotlight wasn't it?
It was the photo on The Western Morning News that I remember, terrified me ,that picture of her bicycle ground too

Like a PP I grew up in Leeds when the Yorkshire Ripper was killing.

Women didn't go out at night unless they absolutely had to.

Mum had to give up shift work as she didn't drive and did not want to be walking home after doing back shift at 10.30 at night.

James Bulger unfortunately, I vividly remember watching divers search for him.

I can also remember Jill Dando’s murder, I would have been a pre-teen around then and I got a news notification on my pager (remember them!!)